Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.
If people don't like me for whatever I do for being me then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
To me eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
As human beings we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience if something has never happened before we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
There's no reason to change what you are but if you're not being you then you need to acknowledge that.
The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
We are not victims of aging sickness and death. These are part of scenery not the seer who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit the expression of eternal being.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
For having lived long I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions even on important subjects which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change the way I see it is service to a fellow human being.